तपत्य् उवाच
नाहम् ईशात्मनो राजन् कन्या पितृमती ह्य् अहम् ॥
मयि चेद् अस्ति ते प्रीतिर् याचस्व पितरं मम ॥
यथा हि ते मया प्राणाः संगृहीता नरेश्वर ॥
दर्शनाद् एव भूयस् त्वं तथा प्राणान् ममाहरः ॥
न चाहम् ईशा देहस्य तस्मान् नृपतिसत्तम ॥
समीपं नोपगच्छामि न स्वतन्त्रा हि योषितः ॥
tapaty uvāca
nāham īśātmano rājan kanyā pitṛmatī hy aham ||
mayi ced asti te prītir yācasva pitaraṃ mama ||
yathā hi te mayā prāṇāḥ saṃgṛhītā nareśvara ||
darśanād eva bhūyas tvaṃ tathā prāṇān mamāharaḥ ||
na cāham īśā dehasya tasmān nṛpatisattama ||
samīpaṃ nopagacchāmi na svatantrā hi yoṣitaḥ ||
Tapati said: "I am not the mistress of myself, O king, for I am a maiden who has a father; if you have love for me, ask my father. Just as my life has been captured by you, O lord of men, so too you, by a single glance, have stolen my life still more. And yet I am not the mistress of my own body, therefore, O best of kings, I do not myself approach you, for women are not independent."
197ebe5d718a · प्रकाशित 12 जुल॰ 2026, 5:29:43 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here the maiden, while loving, subordinates love to dharma and to the will of her elder. It is telling that Tapati does not conceal her answering feeling — "you have stolen my life" — yet she does not act upon it without her father's consent: pure love is not self-willed, it seeks a blessing. The words "women are not independent" reflect the family order of that age, in which a maiden does not dispose of herself apart from her father; more deeply still, here is reverence for elders and an unwillingness to seize for oneself what should be given according to dharma. Here is shown the truth that even mutual attraction is consecrated only by the consent of those whose word is sacred. So the verse shows the chaste restraint of Tapati: she loves, yet does not transgress the order.